Wood Sandpiper - Tringa Glareola

The wood sandpiper is a medium-sized wading bird, with a fine straight bill, yellowish legs and a conspicuous long white stripe from the bill over the eye to the back of the neck. In flight, it shows no wing-stripes and a square white rump.

Is is a passage migrant in spring and autumn, breeding in Northern Europe and wintering in Africa. A few pairs breed in the Scottish Highlands. The flooding of some previously drained traditional marshes in Scotland may help this species in future. Wood sandpipers are listed as a Schedule 1 species.

The wood sandpiper breeds in subarctic wetlands from the Scottish Highlands across Europe and Asia. They migrate to Africa, Southern Asia, particularly India, and Australia. Vagrant birds have been seen as far into the Pacific as the Hawaiian Islands. In Micronesia it is a regular visitor to the Mariana Islands (where flocks of up to 32 birds are reported) and Palau; it is recorded on Kwajalein in the Marshall Islands about once per decade. This species is encountered in the western Pacific region between mid-October and mid-May. A slight westward expansion saw the establishment of a small but permanent breeding population in Scotland since the 1950s.

This bird is usually found on freshwater during migration and wintering. They forage by probing in shallow water or on wet mud, and mainly eat insects and similar small prey. T. glareola nests on the ground or uses an abandoned old tree nest of another bird, such as the fieldfare (Turdus pilaris). Four pale green eggs are laid between March and May.

Adult wood sandpipers moult all their primary feathers between August and December, whilst immature birds moult varying number of outer primaries between December and April, much closer to their departure from Africa. Immatures are also much more flexible than adults in the timing and rate of their moult and refueling. Adults and immatures which accumulate fuel loads of c.50% of their lean body mass can potentially cross distances of 2397–4490 km in one non-stop flight.

The Gwydir forest.

Wood Sandpiper, WWT Slimbridge

Wer vor lauter Bäumen den Wald nicht mehr sieht, hat sprichwörtlich den Überblick verloren

This was an interesting encounter. This little wood duck chick seemed to be on its own, with no other wood ducks around. But there was a family of common gallinules nearby and one of the parents kept trying to scoot the wood duck over into their family, almost as if they were adopting it.

..... some images of detail on driftwood

Wood stork in Bulow Creek State Park, along the Ormond Scenic Loop. Wood storks may not be the prettiest birds, but they have awesome textures around the head. And this one was particularly advantageously positioned against the shaded forest.

A male wood duck seen at a pond in central Florida. In my opinion, one of the most beautiful ducks in the world.

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One of the most handsome ducks, certainly the most colorful, this male Wood Duck stayed among the waterlilies for a few minutes, then swam off into the brush at Six Mile Cypress Slough, Florida.

Municipal Forest, Iserlohn, NRW, D

Early morning from the fantastic beech wood in Speulderbose, Holland

The all-seeing forest eye.

Oak Openings, Ohio

In the garden

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Wild South Africa

Kruger National Park

Some woodtextures of a huge trunk laying down in a park with the late afternoon light.

There were rotten parts and also damaged parts by a fire. The trunk has been an object of nature for a few years now, but it was from a tree of more as 500 years old. Its width is about 1.80 meter or almost 6 feet. This was cut down before it really fell upon somebody.

Wood Duck (m) in fall water reflection. I have done quite a lot of these in the last few weeks.... more to come :-)

Madrid, Spain

I am always filled with joy when the beautiful Wood Ducks return in the Spring <3 They are magical <3

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Another photo of a nice duck done near to my home.

Another lake, another duck.

Sadly weather was very bad, no light at all.

Dont believe the ISO of the EXIF because the photo was so dark, I had to add a lot of light (1.5 steps) in postprocessing so consider it is 6400 ISO.

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Spent the whole weekend getting shots of fall color before it was gone and the weekend could not have been more beautiful. I enjyed the peace and quiet and not to mention all the color!

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At the very end of Cape Cod, and really the "end" of Massachusetts towards the Atlantic Ocean, you find Provincetown. Wood End Light is one of the gatekeepers and a symbol of Provincetown. You can reach it after a 1 mile walk across the causeway, followed by half a mile through the dunes.

The light was first illuminated on November 20, 1872 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

A pleasant scene from a walk on Gran Canaria.

Wood Sandpiper, Langford Lakes Wiltshire UK

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My creation of a mystic landscape, the photo was taken in the Lynches River County Park SC.

One of my favorite trees in the forests around my home.

One from Sullington Warren last year, but I liked the misty rays and that single leaf, glowing in the back light.

Parco Valle del Treja

Mycteria americana

Off a trail in Tablerock State Park..

Branson Missouri.

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